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Mobile Payment Fraud and Abuse

How Can Analytics Address Fraud as M-Payments Extend Into Unbanked Rural Communities?

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For people living in developing countries without a pervasive, modern financial and communications infrastructure, m-payments can improve lives by giving unbanked citizens in rural areas a link to modern financial services at a reasonable price. Using m-payments, countries can "leapfrog" directly into cutting-edge networks and empower unbanked individuals to participate in modern commerce, government programs and processes. As explored in this paper, advancements in cloud technology, digital satellites (DSATs), and fiber-optics allow modern finance processes to be extended to even the most hard-to-reach individuals and small businesses. And governance, risk mitigation, fraud detection and security technologies and protocols make it safe for governments, banks and companies to extend these processes.

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